Company Overview

The organisation uses digital media to communicate its services, promote its activities, strengthen brand recognition, and engage audiences across online platforms. High-quality video content plays an important role in these activities by helping communicate ideas clearly, present information in an engaging format, and support consistent brand messaging across digital channels.

The organisation values creative storytelling, visual consistency, technical quality, and reliable content delivery. Its digital marketing activities require video assets that can be adapted to different platforms, audience preferences, campaign objectives, and publishing formats.

To support these initiatives, the organisation is seeking a freelance video editor who can transform raw footage, recorded interviews, product demonstrations, and other visual materials into polished, engaging content. The successful candidate will combine creative judgement with technical editing skills and the ability to manage projects independently in a remote working environment.

Role Summary

The Freelance Video Editor — Digital Marketing & Social Media Content will be responsible for editing video materials for social media campaigns, digital advertisements, promotional content, brand storytelling, and other online marketing initiatives.

The role involves reviewing source footage, selecting the strongest sequences, arranging clips into coherent narratives, refining pacing, improving audio quality, adding graphics and captions, and preparing finished videos for publication. The editor will work from creative briefs and collaborate with marketing professionals, designers, content creators, and campaign coordinators to ensure that each deliverable meets its intended purpose.

Projects may include short-form vertical videos, promotional reels, educational clips, product showcases, campaign highlights, customer testimonials, and longer promotional videos adapted for digital distribution. The successful candidate should understand how editing choices influence viewer attention, message clarity, and the overall effectiveness of a video.

This is a freelance opportunity for a creative professional who can balance originality with brand requirements, manage multiple assignments, respond constructively to feedback, and deliver technically sound content within agreed deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

• Edit raw footage into professional videos suitable for digital marketing campaigns, social media channels, and online promotional activities.
• Produce short-form content for platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, LinkedIn, and other relevant digital channels.
• Create longer promotional videos, campaign recaps, product demonstrations, brand stories, and informational content when required.
• Review footage, identify the strongest takes, remove unnecessary sections, and organise clips into clear, engaging narratives.
• Apply effective pacing, transitions, sequencing, and visual continuity to maintain viewer interest and communicate the intended message.
• Incorporate approved brand assets, logos, motion graphics, lower thirds, titles, and other visual elements.
• Add accurate subtitles, captions, and on-screen text to improve accessibility and support viewers watching without sound.
• Perform audio editing, including dialogue clean-up, volume balancing, noise reduction, and appropriate music integration.
• Apply colour correction and consistent colour grading to improve visual quality and maintain a cohesive appearance across deliverables.
• Select suitable licensed or approved music, sound effects, and visual assets in accordance with project requirements.
• Adapt video content to different aspect ratios, resolutions, durations, and platform specifications.
• Collaborate with marketing teams and content creators to understand campaign objectives, target audiences, messaging priorities, and creative direction.
• Interpret storyboards, editing briefs, reference videos, and feedback to produce content that meets the intended creative standard.
• Prepare draft versions for review, collect stakeholder feedback, and complete agreed revisions within the project timeline.
• Maintain organised project files, source footage, graphics, audio assets, and final exports using agreed file-naming and storage procedures.
• Ensure that the final video meets technical requirements for resolution, frame rate, audio levels, file format, and export quality.
• Check all deliverables for spelling errors, caption accuracy, visual inconsistencies, unintended gaps, and other editing defects.
• Identify opportunities to improve storytelling, pacing, visual clarity, and the effectiveness of video content.
• Manage multiple projects according to agreed deadlines and communicate progress or potential delays promptly.
• Ensure that all footage, music, stock assets, and other creative materials are used in accordance with applicable licensing and usage permissions.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in video editing, digital content production, multimedia design, or a related creative discipline.
• A portfolio or showreel featuring completed video projects relevant to digital marketing or social media content.
• Proficiency with professional editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, or comparable tools.
• Working knowledge of video sequencing, pacing, transitions, colour correction, audio editing, and export settings.
• Experience producing content for vertical, square, and widescreen formats.
• Ability to create clear and engaging narratives from raw footage and supplied creative materials.
• Familiarity with motion graphics, animated titles, captioning workflows, and basic visual effects.
• Understanding of platform-specific content requirements and the differences between short-form and long-form video.
• Strong attention to detail when checking timing, subtitles, audio levels, visual continuity, and final exports.
• Ability to interpret creative briefs and translate them into effective editing decisions.
• Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate with remote marketing and creative teams.
• Strong time management, organisation, and the ability to meet multiple project deadlines.
• Willingness to incorporate feedback and manage revision cycles professionally.
• Knowledge of copyright, music licensing, stock footage permissions, and responsible use of third-party assets.
• Ability to work independently and maintain consistent quality across multiple assignments.
• Familiarity with content performance analytics or social media engagement metrics is an advantage.

Benefits

• Fully remote freelance engagement within Estonia.
• Flexibility to organise editing work around agreed deadlines and project milestones.
• Opportunity to contribute to diverse digital campaigns and creative content initiatives.
• Collaboration with marketing professionals, designers, and content creators.
• Opportunities to build a portfolio across different video formats, platforms, and campaign objectives.
• Scope to develop expertise in digital storytelling, motion graphics, and platform-specific editing.
• Clear project briefs, defined deliverables, and structured feedback processes.
• Compensation, project volume, payment schedules, and contract conditions will be discussed during recruitment.

Application Instructions

Interested applicants should submit an up-to-date CV or professional profile together with a portfolio or showreel demonstrating relevant video editing experience.

Applicants should highlight their proficiency with editing software, experience producing social media content, and ability to deliver polished videos from raw footage. Portfolio examples should ideally demonstrate a range of editing techniques, such as narrative sequencing, captions, audio refinement, colour correction, and adaptation to different publishing formats.

Where possible, candidates should briefly explain their individual contribution to selected projects and identify the tools used. Applicants should also describe their approach to handling creative feedback, managing multiple deliverables, and maintaining quality under deadlines.

Shortlisted candidates may be invited to complete a practical editing exercise based on a supplied brief. Further application details and contract arrangements will be communicated through the relevant hiring channel.

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